"Serge Auckland" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote


Now, forget all that (it'll come, one day) tell me if you have had
any 'hands on' with the Technics 3000 series SS pre/power combo?

It is reputed to have some of the lowest noise and distortion figures
on record


Make that 'sets of'....


(Martin Colloms) yet, last night when I was listening to a
particularly fine 1958 recording of Grieg's Concerto in A minor
(Solomon), I switched from the Technics on the TLS80s to my 2A3 SET
on the Fidelios and got a much better, more *exciting* (more
listenable) sound. As the SET (according to the pundits here)
produces enough distortion to bend light and the Fidelios have little
or nothing outside the range of the human voice, I am intrigued as to
what's going on?

Is it me?

(Note that both systems share all sources and exist side by side
here - I'm not concerned about *winners*....)


It most likely *is* you, or at least, your preferences. Whilst it may
be an exaggeration (slight?) to say your Fidelios have nothing outside
voice range, or that your SETs have enough distortion to bend light,
but nevertheless, what I think is happening is that you find the more
exciting sound more to your liking.


:-)

See my reply to Iain!!

(For radio voices - reverse all the above, however....)